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'It looked like he was begging for his life'

DEANGELO “Ducky” Burrows was shot seven times on a Grand Bahama street Saturday night, wounds his family says suggest he was begging for his life.

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'Uber coming' despite taxi union resistance

A BUSINESSMAN says he is bringing Uber to the country despite resounding opposition from the Bahamas Taxi Cab Union.

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Weekend fire guts family-owned hotel

HEARTBREAK struck a Bimini family on Sunday after a fast-moving fire tore through their decades-old family hotel at a time it was in the process of being sold.

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FNM to ratify eight candidates as election race heats up

THE Free National Movement (FNM) plans to ratify at least eight candidates tonight, including Shanendon Cartwright and Carlton Bowleg, who are set for the newly created constituencies.

Two women charged in $65K Abaco 'Crown land' scam

TWO Grand Bahama women have been charged with defrauding 15 Abaco residents of more than $65,000 in cash in connection with the alleged sale of Crown land.

Two stepfathers remanded for alleged sexual assault of minors

TWO men accused in separate cases of having sex with their underaged stepdaughters were remanded to prison yesterday.

Man and woman's bail set $100K in $2.6m Bimini drug bust

A MAN and a woman accused in a $2.6 million cocaine bust in Bimini last week were granted bail yesterday.

Man gets five years for rifle and ammo stash

A MAN was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday after admitting he had a prohibited rifle and more than 100 rounds of ammunition near his home on Zirconia Court last week.

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PLP scrap convention while they turn focus on election

PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis told the PLP’s National General Council yesterday that the party will not hold a pre-election convention this year, arguing that resources are better spent preparing for the general election, The Tribune understands.

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Gibson: 'Pay overtime to nurses now and stop the ‘spinning’

Nurses taking industrial action over unpaid overtime could receive partial overdue payments today, according to Frazette Gibson, FNM Candidate for Central Grand Bahama Constituency.

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Tragedy at excavation site as worker crushed

FOR hours on Thursday night, thousands of Bahamians watched in dread as men with shovels and heavy machinery clawed at a mound of rock and dirt, hoping to pull a 51-year-old construction worker out alive.

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Arctic blast leaves Nassau’s most vulnerable shivering

COLD winds that sent wind chills plunging into the 30s left some of the country’s homeless huddled in abandoned buildings with nothing more than thin sheets — and in some cases, nothing at all — to fight off the bitter air.

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Watson out as PLP ratify final candidates

A BITTER internal fight over Southern Shores ended last night with the Progressive Liberal Party denying ZNS General Manager Clint Watson the nomination and instead selecting Obie Roberts as the party ratified its full slate of candidates for the next general election.

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INSIGHT: The other (secret) drug war

IN THE Bahamas, as in many other countries, particularly those with large migrant populations, the unbanked, and high poverty rates, parallel economies thrive.

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Davis ‘disappointed’ by nurses’ industrial action

PRIME Minister Philip Brave Davis said he was “disappointed” by nurses’ reaction to the overtime pay crisis, insisting the government moved quickly once it became aware that the Public Hospitals Authority had exhausted its overtime funds.